indeed, this is a further redesign of the Na'Vi featured in avatar, as their humanoid shape had bothered me...

this redesign is in fact a redesign of my previous redesigns, and I suspect that in the months to come, I shall create yet more variations of the redesign untill I arrive at something I can finally call finished....

in this particular concept, I saught to highlight the vegitation, as I was rather unimpressed by pandora's alora as well, so I set about changing the basic principles of it...

eh, much more to come soon, I compleeted this particular sketch about four months ago, and there is SOOO much more I must upload!

I think I must ask for clarification on the latter end of the statement though; are you indicating that the film itself cost less than $300 million, or that this design in practical application in the film would cost that amount?

your Na'vi redesign is amazing!im quite inpired by iti also making an alien creature that is less human-like but very unique(excuse my spelling)pease draw more conceptsid love to see a redesigned Thanator and Na'vi hometree

thank you! I am happy to inspire, and perhaps I will do some more redesigns of the film's flora and fauna at some point, but I am currently occupied with a different set of projects... feel free to view some of my other work though, as I have no intentions of ceasing to draw! XD

after viewing your gallery, I have found that you (like many others) tend to draw typical things found in pop culture, such as dragons, knights, and something that looks suspiciously like the bounty hunter from the star wars films... I say, it would be best to veer away from things such as that, find something in the world that inspires you to imagine and to draw things entirley unlike the things that have already been drawn by other people... I often find that the most mundane of things can inspire fantastic ideas. for instance, take a look at my artist's comments for this piece;[link] , there I rambled on about an idea for a creature inspired by a sketchbook. really though, if you draw things that are at least slightly removed from what is typical, your designs will be far more interesting.

also, work some more on value studies and shadows, as your work seems rather flat now...

Please though, keep drawing! the voyage to decency is a long and difficult one, and I have still not even come close to reaching the destination myself... we shall improve.

I do believe why they made the plants and Na'vi resemble the plants on earth and humans so much though is so we could relate back to our planet. It had a good lesson in the movie, which is often just as important as the cool effects.

yes, I understand that, but I feel that people should be apreciative of all life forms, and sympathise with their problems... regardless of their aperance. the fact that people could not possibly feel sorrow for the destruction of an ecosystem simply because it does not resemble our own leads me to hope that we humans never develop interstellar travel... the havok the dull headed imperalists would wreak would likley be far worse than that we witnessed in this film.

then again, I would be thrilled in ways I cannot possibly put into words if we were to find an alien ecosystem.... I simply fear what would become of it due to the meddelings of the folls that populate our world.

I much prefer this version...I dunno, somehow it just seems to fit in more with the rest of the Pandoran fauna. Plus it looks more agile and better suited to life in the canopy.And the shading is amazing, as usual ^^

Really cool work! Though it doesn't even remotely resemble Cameron's Na'vi (which is a good thing, their design was terrible), I can still see how a bit of the creature designs from the movie influenced the appearance. Once again, Great job here!

Whoa! I like this na'vi redesign better than th old one, thats for sure. I like the limb design for this hexapod. I was inspired to do my own na'vi when you first put the idea out there--you are right--too human! Great pic again!

"Well excuse me for having enourmous flaws that I don't work on!"--Homer Simpson

you are welcome, and I'll probably be uploading about ten pages every day for the next few days... or, mabey not, because there are some pages out of those books that are little more than mistakes... and I have more to scan too.. but, just know that more are coming! XD